Far-left Ben & Jerry's is at it again

I suspect that they have lost conservatives as buyers of their product long ago.

America acquired its territory from the American Indians by conquest, not by stealing. The same is true of most countries. To be unable to to distinguish conquest from stealing is just the usual deliberate Leftist stupidity

Unilever stock lost about $2 billion in market capitalization amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s ice cream after the company posted a Fourth of July message saying the United States should hand Mount Rushmore over to Native Americans.

Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational company, dropped about 0.5 percent on Friday, 0.8 percent on Thursday, and 0.5 the previous day. It’s not clear if the drop was due to the calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s, which has been owned by Unilever since 2000.

It all started when the Vermont-based ice cream company wrote that “this 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” before it posted a link to a blog post asserting that the United States hand back the famed national monument with four presidents to native tribal assets.

“The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights,” the post alleged.

A number of people on the platform, including prominent conservatives, called for a boycott.

“Make @benndjerrys Bud Light again,” country singer-songwriter John Rich wrote in response, responding to the several-week-long boycott targeting Bud Light that has seen the beer company’s year-over-year sales plummet. While Bud Light didn’t attack the founding of the United States, the company was panned for producing a can of beer with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s face on it.

“Long overdue for the Bud Light treatment. You hate the country, fine. We won’t buy your product. All good,” another wrote in response. “When is Ben & Jerry’s giving up their land?” Jenna Ellis, a former attorney to President Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter.

Several newspapers like the New York Post and Washington Examiner, too, called for a consumer-led boycott after the Twitter post.

“The brand backed bad-joke Occupy Wall Street, for crying out loud; it aligns with the anti-Israel BDS movement. Co-founder Ben Cohen funds groups opposed to US military aid to Ukraine,” the NY Post’s editorial wrote before calling for a boycott of the ice cream company. “Remember, America, you don’t have to accept woke preening from corporate elites. Speak up—with your wallets,” it said.

The Examiner said, “It may be fun to imagine, but, of course, Ben & Jerry’s will never actually give back the land its corporate office sits on. It will simply exert pressure on others to give up their land.”

It’s now Americans’ “job to try and turn the tide” against the company, the paper said.

Vermont Land?

Meanwhile, one Native American tribal chief, Don Stevens, told the New York Post in an interview on Friday that he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with [Ben & Jerry’s] to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.” If Ben & Jerry’s is “sincere,” the company should hand over its Vermont properties to the Coosuk Abenaki Nation.

“If you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people. Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place,” Stevens said, claiming that the Abenaki see themselves as “stewards of the land.”

The company, however, is no stranger to controversy and boycott calls. Over the years, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s have taken left-wing or anti-U.S. stances, and have also often been critical of American foreign policy efforts, including Washington’s decision to provide military aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Years ago, some called for a Ben & Jerry’s boycott after it refused to sell its ice cream in Israel’s West Bank and Gaza Strip, alleging those areas are being occupied by Israel.

In June, Ben & Jerry’s announced it wouldn’t pay to advertise on Twitter and claimed that “hate speech” is on the rise across the platform since Elon Musk purchased the company last year. In a blog post weeks ago, the company wrote that changes at Twitter are causing it “great concern” and that “hate speech is up dramatically while content moderation has become all but non-existent.”

And in March, company co-founder Ben Cohen spoke out about the U.S. government providing military assistance to Ukraine, saying that the United States should instead try to negotiate an end to the war.

“I think the U.S. should use its power to negotiate an end to the war, not prolong the death and destruction by supplying more weapons,” Mr. Cohen told the Daily Beast in March.

Mr. Cohen was arrested Thursday by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) police for blocking an entrance to the Department of Justice (DOJ) building in Washington as he was demonstrating against the detainment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been held in custody for years. A photo showed Cohen holding a sign with the words, “free Assange,” on them before he was arrested.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ben-jerrys-loses-billions-in-stock-value-amid-boycott-calls_5381866.html ?

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Charming Afghan refugee says Thank You to Britain for taking him in

This is the moment a young woman screams in terror and runs for her life after being punched repeatedly in the face by a stranger in a horrific unprovoked attack.

Aisha Waris, 23, fled into the home of a neighbour to escape from Gulwali Stanekzay, who had left her face dripping in blood.

She had been walking home by herself at night in February when she was confronted by the crazed 22-year-old, who attacked her three times.

Stanekzay, an Afghan immigrant, was today sentenced to three years in prison after admitting assaulting Ms Waris.

The horrifying attack in Harlesden, north-west London, was caught on a Ring doorbell camera belonging to Richard Jarman, who had come out of his house after hearing screaming in the street.

In footage played to Harrow Crown Court, Ms Waris is seen walking up to Mr Jarman's front door, whimpering in fear, pleading with Stanekzay to stop.

She then screams out 'No' as he pursues her onto the property and begins a flurry of punches to her head and face, forcing her to seek shelter inside the house.

Mr Jarman can be heard shouting at the attacker, 'you're on camera' before shutting the door.

Stanekzay attempted to gain access to the terraced property by taking a series of running kicks to the door before smashing the glass and the Ring camera with a bike lock.

In her victim impact speech read to the court Ms Waris revealed how she is now too scared to leave her home and is afraid to be on her own.

She said: 'This incident has caused me a lot of distress and had an impact on my emotions and my mental health.

'I have also sustained physical injuries included bruising and swelling to my eyes, nose and lip.

'I had many bruises on my head, neck, shoulder and back. I have had to go to hospital to receive treatment for my physical injuries.

Ms Waris had been walking home along Minet Avenue in Harlesden at 7.30pm on February 26 when Stanekzay suddenly and deliberately rode his bike into her and started punching her repeatedly in the head and shoulders for about a minute.

He rode away and shocked and dazed, she continued her short journey back home but noticed seconds later he was again walking towards her menacingly.

Stanekzay punched her repeatedly again forcing Ms Waris to cover her face and run towards Mr Jarman's home.

She approached the house and was begging Stanekzay to leave her alone, but he ignored her pleas and launched a third savage assault.

Once inside the property, she wiped the blood away from her nose and lip.

Enraged, Stanekzay turned his fury on a Toyota Prius parked out in the street and caused £3,445 worth of damage to the car before turning his attention to Mr Jarman's front door.

Footage shows him taking several flying kicks at the door before he starts to smash the camera and a pane of glass with his bike lock causing more than £4000 worth of damage.

Ms Waris had been on the phone when she was attacked initially and the friend on the other end of the line had managed to contact her father, Abdullah Khan, who drove to the scene.

Mr Khan, who was accompanied by his other daughter, confronted Stanekzay outside the house.

Security footage shows the moment he too was attacked by the defendant, who punched him two or three times and dragged him along the road before fleeing.

Ms Waris suffered a bruised lip, a swollen nose and red marks and bruising to her chest, shoulders and face.

Her father suffered a black eye and broken tooth.

Stanekzay, who had come to Britain as an unaccompanied 16-year-old from Afghanistan in 2016, had been in and out of immigration centres and was homeless at the time of the attack.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of assault (ABH) and two counts of criminal damage at a previous hearing in May.

He admitted this afternoon that he was also in breach of a suspended sentence order after being convicted of ABH in December, 2022 and given a 24-week prison sentence suspended for 12-months.

Sentencing him today for the 'wholly unprovoked' attack, judge Maya Sikand said: 'Watching that footage is upsetting and frightening and I'm sorry to say portrays you in a very ugly light.'

Stanekzay, who issued his 'reserved apologies' to the victims through his barrister, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for the assaults and another 24- weeks for breaching his suspended sentence.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12272003/Womans-horror-randomly-attacked-homeless-Afghan-immigrant.html

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Kamala Harris ‘culture’ word salad stumps Twitter users: ‘Emptiest human being alive’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ wordy description of the meaning of “culture” brought out social media mockery as she delivered what many considered another “nonsense” comment.

Harris appeared at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture on Friday to discuss various topics including small businesses and abortion. During the event, the vice president described how she would define culture.

“Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment and our time. Right? And present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment. That is a reflection of joy. Because, you know…it comes in the morning,” Harris said, breaking into laughter.

She added, “We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way, too.”

This statement renewed attacks against Harris’ public appearances as Twitter users exclaimed shock at her “empty” statements.

“Kamala tried to define the word ‘culture’ today… And it went about as well as if a 9 year old had to give a book report on a book they didn’t read… This is cringier than most Biden talks,” comedian Tim Young wrote.

“Good Lord,” Hot Air contributing editor Karen Townsend declared. Radio host Chris Stigall tweeted, “This is the emptiest human being alive. Sincerely. Empty. Vapid. Nonsense.”

“OMG – what is wrong with this babbling brook of a woman?” Fox News contributor Liz Peek tweeted.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/kamala-harris-culture-word-salad-stumps-twitter-users/

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New York Times proves ‘disinformation’ is just info Democrats dislike

US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled July 4 that the federal government can’t, in fact, bully social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook into taking down speech it dislikes.

The Times’ response?

A long “news analysis” framing the decision in purely partisan terms and impugning the judge’s credibility.

The paper’s apparent reasoning: it’s bad for the White House and Democrats, and therefore dangerous and wrongheaded.

Team Biden (and Dems national, state and local) used first Donald Trump and then the pandemic as moral-panic springboards to ramp up government “anti-disinformation” efforts, justifying them on grounds of public health and safety.

And never mind that the First Amendment says the feds can’t restrict speech, nor (by implication) have third parties do that dirty work.

Yet the Times fawningly echoes the “disinfo” rationale, describing the censorship as meant to “prevent the spread of potentially dangerous information, particularly in an election or during emergencies like a pandemic.”

No: As the Twitter Files and other reporting amply show, the hammer came down again and again on true content that the feds (or Democrats) found inconvenient, as well as political opinion.

The Post’s reporting on Hunter’s laptop, for example.

Or our commentary on the likelihood of COVID having originated in a lab.

Both stories have since been utterly vindicated; both were suppressed on the same specious grounds.

It’s clearly censorship by other means.

And it’d be wrong even if we’d been wrong: The First Amendment has no “disinformation” exception, as decades of jurisprudence on speech make clear.

That applies even to RFK Jr.’s bonkers arguments about the dangers of vaccines, which are now getting suppressed by YouTube.

Ah, the disinfo warriors rejoin: It’s private companies doing the suppression of their own free will, so the First Amendment doesn’t apply.

But they only (or mainly, anyway) did it under government pressure, including threats of federal action if they didn’t obey. Hence the close-and-cuddly relationship between Big Tech and Big Government and frequent meetings, phone chats and email updates to coordinate the censorship efforts.

Free speech has to be free for everyone.

Even the wrong and the morally repulsive.

It’s beyond appalling that the Times can no longer see that.

Or that the Grey Lady simply refuses to, which is even sadder.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/new-york-times-shows-democrats-lie-about-federal-censorship/

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